The Meat Inspection Act brought the following reforms to the processing of cattle, sheep, horses, swine and goats destined for human consumption: • All animals were required to pass an inspection by the U.S. Drug Administration prior to slaughter • All carcasses were subject to a post-mortem inspection • Cleanliness standards established for slaughterhouses and processing plants A key influence on President Roosevelt was the book The Jungle written by "mukeracker" Upton Sinclair. In this book Sinclair wrote about the dangerous working conditions, filthy processing plant...

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"# The meat packing industry took no responsibility for producing safe and sanitary meat. ... "# This obviously led to tubercular meat being processed in the packing house. Another problem was the incredible lack of sanitation and the use of spoiled meat, another quote from "The Jungle" tells of how dirty it was in these plants "There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about on it. ... "# The meat packers ignored the publics right to safe, clean meat. ... The Meat inspection Act of 1906 set ru...

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Oddly enough Jurgis finds a job rather quickly from when they arrive in Chicago and starts working at the meat packing plant. ... The meat packing plant is very dark and dangerous. ... The health risks abound inside these plants with the bosses of these plants not worrying at all about his workers. ... The bosses would make the workers work over time without pay to be able to process bad or spoiled meat while the health inspector was gone. ... Sinclair tells how dead rats, droppings, spoiled meat, human body parts, and whatever would fall in would be processed into sausage to be eaten. ...

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Not only were there dangers at their job but in every section of the plant someone could get injured by a machine or by slipping on the floor. ... Sinclair also wrote about the quality of the meat and how sometimes they would reuse scraps of meat. ... Once this book was published and these supposed truths of the meat-packing plants and the fraud that was occurring in the came to the attention of the Food and Drug Administration there were new meat-packing laws devised, and quite and uproar with everyone the United States that this could on in a factory. Even though today there are certain re...

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Outside the packing plants, newly arrived immigrants men and women desperate for jobs offered to work for even lower wages. ... The packing plants were dangerous places--sites of accidents and sources of all kinds of diseases from pneumonia and blood poisoning to deadly tuberculosis. ... To survive, workers in the meat-packing plants were forced to take part in a horrendous fraud, one that affected nearly every American. ... On a number of occasions In the process to obtain profits, the dedicated worker that contributed many years of his life and talent to building the company is discard. ... ...

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He makes jokes about the sanitation of the operation (due only to the lack of quality of the meat). ... He is the only person in the meat plant that doesn't complain. ... The meat packing factories prove to be extremely unsanitary. Animal fetuses and even human corpses were processed, packaged, and distributed to the country. ... But without Upton Sinclair's ideas, the meat market could have remained in the state that it held back then....

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While survival was the goal for many lower class people each day, Sinclair also exposed the unsanitary food products being shipped and processed during this time period. ... He was implying that the meat being packaged was not of good quality and probably expired. ... Even the government inspector passes over spoiled carcasses and rotten meat. ... A further description was revealed through Jurgis' knowledge of the meatpacking industry to reveal the lack of care/contaminated meats of the meatpacking industry: "the meat would be shoveled into carts there were things that went into the ...

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